Durban – Detectives have been left baffled after a KwaMaphumulo man was stabbed repeatedly and thrown off a cliff at the weekend.

The 31-year-old man had left his home on Sunday in the settlement north of Durban to buy airtime, but never returned.

His body, pockmarked with stab wounds, was found at the foot of a steep cliff.

Police Search and Rescue Unit officers used an elaborate rope system to haul his body to the overhang.

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Johannesburg – A Germiston man is facing an attempted-murder charge after he allegedly tried to hang a 10-year-old boy who was caught throwing stones at birds.

Police said the 48-year-old man was arrested in Rondebult, Germiston, on Monday afternoon.

He is expected to appear in the Germiston Magistrate’s Court on Tuesday.

“The children… were playing and they were throwing stones to hit birds,” Captain Tsekiso Mofokeng said.

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Cape Town – A person can be appointed to serve Abathembu King Buleyekhaya Dalindyebo’s 12-year jail term on his behalf according to tradition, the Congress of Traditional Leaders of SA (Contralesa) has said.

“In terms of our tradition, a king does not really go to jail. His people choose a person on his behalf because he is the father of the nation,” Contralesa general secretary Xolile Ndevu told News24.

He said this was done “knowing very well” that the king would do something to thank the servant.

“Sometimes a king would then compensate that person by giving a status of a supreme loyal subject, headman or chief. Or he may give a piece of land or cattle.”

Durban – Police have found the remains of a foetus that was dumped into a long-drop toilet in Lamontville.

The dark hollow of the pit latrine was the final resting place of the baby which had yet to take its first breath.

The tiny body bore the injuries of marks believed to have been made by a coat hanger when it was delivered prematurely.

It is understood that police received a tip-off that the foetus had been dumped into the long-drop in Lamontville on Monday night.

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Cape Town – Every year, black and coloured parents face an uphill battle to enrol their children at elite schools such as Paul Roos Gymnasium, Stellenbosch Against Racism (Star) said on Tuesday.

“They have a quota of how much coloured and black children they allow in. Children [from other areas] are bussed in. We say no – we have enough children here [to fill the schools],” founder Franklin Adams said outside the Stellenbosch Magistrate’s Court.

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